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Featured has what I think are roughly the top 20% of my works. Browse has everything else.Unfinished, quick and dirty, and exceptionally old works are in the Scrapbook.Nothing out of the ordinary, really.

You may or may not have heard about John Harris.If so, I'm just joining the club. If not, I feel obligated to spread the word.

I used to think that a lot of the cover art for contemporary science fiction novels published within the past two decades were made by a bunch of people who subscribed to the same aesthetic, with a distinct feel to it that was kind of hard to describe (curse my lack of literary expressive vocabulary). If you read science fiction novels, or even browsed through the sci-fi/fantasy books section of your local (English-lanugage) bookstore, you should have seen the artwork.

I always kind of liked science fiction artwork that evoked a sense of wonder, with a feel of surreal awe. The ending artwork for the anime OutlawStar by Hikaru Tanaka, for example (He seems to have dropped off the interwebs btw and I can't really follow what he's doing now). But my self-recognition of my preferences never went beyond a nebulous and fuzzy "that kind of art" as I wasn't really able to express it in a single word or phrase or flailing around with adjectives in futile attempts to nail "it" down. I never really bothered to look up who the cover artists were on the books I bought either, and even if I did, it didn't stick long enough in my memory for me to write it down somewhere.But then I was looking through the making of Destiny by Bungie -- which I really want -- and the name John Harris popped up. They showed some of his works on screen and mentioned it was one of their inspirations, and I thought, "huh, that's kind of cool, that's the stuff I like", but it still didn't really stand out. That was maybe spring of this year, winter last year.

Then I was looking for some inspiration for some more recent artwork projects, suddenly remembered that there was a guy who was the inspiration for the aesthetic for Destiny -- which I really really want -- and googled it.I found the name, googled that, and the rest is what I mentioned above, with a big "holy shit it's all this ONE guy!" moment. It all kind of crystallized in me, as now I could browse through a comprehensive collection of the stuff I realized I liked much more easily, and I could start to build a more concrete definition of what I liked and what I want to be able to do.

So yeah, I now can blurt "John Harris!" when someone asks me what my favorite artist is, instead of giving a waffling answers like "well there isn't really one guy but...".Before, the one name I could give to that question from early on was Yoji Shinkawa from the Metal Gear Solid fare. But looking back, it's now a bit of a love-hate thing, on how I may have been exposed to his stuff too early and how his influence might have screwed me over. I saw his stuff for MGS, thought in my teenage years, yes that is awesome! I want to draw like that! and tried to ape his abstract style without actually knowing how to draw normally. I feel that kind of derailed my growth and my goals to a certain extent, and I haven't been able to emulate the style with much success neither.

But now I can start to worship someone else now.I might be saying the same thing about myself 10 years down the line, but who knows.

You may or may not have heard about John Harris.If so, I'm just joining the club. If not, I feel obligated to spread the word.

I used to think that a lot of the cover art for contemporary science fiction novels published within the past two decades were made by a bunch of people who subscribed to the same aesthetic, with a distinct feel to it that was kind of hard to describe (curse my lack of literary expressive vocabulary). If you read science fiction novels, or even browsed through the sci-fi/fantasy books section of your local (English-lanugage) bookstore, you should have seen the artwork.

I always kind of liked science fiction artwork that evoked a sense of wonder, with a feel of surreal awe. The ending artwork for the anime OutlawStar by Hikaru Tanaka, for example (He seems to have dropped off the interwebs btw and I can't really follow what he's doing now). But my self-recognition of my preferences never went beyond a nebulous and fuzzy "that kind of art" as I wasn't really able to express it in a single word or phrase or flailing around with adjectives in futile attempts to nail "it" down. I never really bothered to look up who the cover artists were on the books I bought either, and even if I did, it didn't stick long enough in my memory for me to write it down somewhere.But then I was looking through the making of Destiny by Bungie -- which I really want -- and the name John Harris popped up. They showed some of his works on screen and mentioned it was one of their inspirations, and I thought, "huh, that's kind of cool, that's the stuff I like", but it still didn't really stand out. That was maybe spring of this year, winter last year.

Then I was looking for some inspiration for some more recent artwork projects, suddenly remembered that there was a guy who was the inspiration for the aesthetic for Destiny -- which I really really want -- and googled it.I found the name, googled that, and the rest is what I mentioned above, with a big "holy shit it's all this ONE guy!" moment. It all kind of crystallized in me, as now I could browse through a comprehensive collection of the stuff I realized I liked much more easily, and I could start to build a more concrete definition of what I liked and what I want to be able to do.

So yeah, I now can blurt "John Harris!" when someone asks me what my favorite artist is, instead of giving a waffling answers like "well there isn't really one guy but...".Before, the one name I could give to that question from early on was Yoji Shinkawa from the Metal Gear Solid fare. But looking back, it's now a bit of a love-hate thing, on how I may have been exposed to his stuff too early and how his influence might have screwed me over. I saw his stuff for MGS, thought in my teenage years, yes that is awesome! I want to draw like that! and tried to ape his abstract style without actually knowing how to draw normally. I feel that kind of derailed my growth and my goals to a certain extent, and I haven't been able to emulate the style with much success neither.

But now I can start to worship someone else now.I might be saying the same thing about myself 10 years down the line, but who knows.

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